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Anonymous
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Greetings,
I am an American living in Mindanao Philippines. I am new to mining but have learned a lot from forums such as this one.
I have found some tailing ponds from local small scale miners here that I have assayed and found there is good amounts of gold left in this waste. The problem is almost all the miners here use either mercury or cyanide, and these end up in the tails. As a test I have run small samples of these tails through a popandson sluice and have gotten quite high gold return. My question is: Is there any reasonable way to remove mercury from the tails before I sluice? same question for cyanide?
Thank you in advance
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I am an American living in Mindanao Philippines. I am new to mining but have learned a lot from forums such as this one.
I have found some tailing ponds from local small scale miners here that I have assayed and found there is good amounts of gold left in this waste. The problem is almost all the miners here use either mercury or cyanide, and these end up in the tails. As a test I have run small samples of these tails through a popandson sluice and have gotten quite high gold return. My question is: Is there any reasonable way to remove mercury from the tails before I sluice? same question for cyanide?
Thank you in advance
itsnews1